The Gloucestershire Court of Sewers, 1583-1642

Download or read book The Gloucestershire Court of Sewers, 1583-1642 written by Rose Hewlett and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The extant 1583-1642 records of the Gloucestershire Court of Sewers are a nationally important survival from a small body of documentation that has rarely been fully appreciated by past scholarship. 'Sewers' in this instance are watercourses that drain low-lying coastal marshes, and these Gloucestershire records are to be prized and cherished as much as the rich agricultural land the commissioners of sewers served to protect."--xxvii.